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After the chat, we'll excerpt a few of the best questions -- and our witty and urbane answers -- in a post on the Fix. So, if you miss the live chat (heaven forbid!), you can catch it in this space later tomorrow.

"As you wish," the fire swamp with the Rodents Of Unusual Size ("R.O.U.S.'s? Have a rat roast in DC and wash it down with a cold one. I have rocket fuel. We need to chat, but a little more action beats a lot more talk.

"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of -- and the allegations -- by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble -- that means not tell the truth."

It just works on so many levels

1) He is thinking of the wrong word
2) This seems to be something he read off a word of the day calendar
3) He is explaining this incorrect word to a room of people who almost certainly know what the real meaning of the real word is

And if you want another

4) Bush is doing the exact thing he is accusing the detainees of doing. Lying, or "disassembling"

boxers, Rachel (for those of you who don't know the reference, from Friends), and of course, North Carolina Pork from my home state. I recommend Eastern style, but whatever you do, get it sliced and not chopped, they can't hide the fat when it is sliced.

I can just picture it. The meeting went well into the night. Hundreds of potential names for the new chat hour were scrawled on dry erase boards around the conference room. Empty boxes of Chinese food littered the table. Frustrations started to mount, tensions started to run high....suddenly, like a beam of light through the cluttered darkness, someone cried "I've GOT IT! Let's call it 'The LIVE Fix"!!!"

That, or Chris made up the name in the 15 seconds it took to walk back to his office after finding out his bad luck....